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Call for Papers
 
International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing
2015)
 
Date: October 17-19, 2015
Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2015/
 
Culture and Computing is a new research area which aims to overcome different cultural issues in international communities using information and communication technologies (ICT). There are various research directions in the relations between culture and computing: to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives), to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities), to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art), to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent), to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT (cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture).

The International Conference on Culture and Computing provides an opportunity to share research issues and discuss the future of culture and computing, which was established in Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan in 2010, and has been held once every two years in Kyoto, Japan since 2011. The conference is also held in even years when there is a voluntary host city (e.g., Culture and Computing 2012 in Hangzhou, China). 
 
Culture and Computing 2015 will also be organized with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture, along with organized sessions, poster sessions and demonstrations. There will be a performance of Kyogen (a form of traditional Japanese comic theater) in social events. Especially we are also proud to announce the keynote talk and the invited talk in Culture and Computing 2015 as shown below.

- Keynote Talk: Music cultures opened up by music technologies (Dr. Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

- Invited Talk: Antoni Gaudí and his role in forming a traditional craft - digital culture continuum (Professor Mark Burry, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia)

We invite submission to a wide range of venues including papers, posters, and demos. Submissions are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture and computing, but are expected to be suitable for a multidisciplinary audience. In Culture and Computing 2015, we especially encourage submissions on three topics: culture and computing for Tokyo Olympics, open data for culture and computing, and culture in social network. Other examples of suitable submission topics include:
- Archiving cultural heritages
- Information environments for humanity studies
- Art and design by information technologies
- Digital storytelling
- Intercultural communication and collaboration
- Culturally situated agents and simulations
- Game and culture
- Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web
- Culture and brain science
- VR (virtual reality) application for culture
- Digital libraries for cultural materials
- Sound archiving of intangible cultural properties
- Digital humanities
- Culture based media art & music

* Paper Submission

There are three types of submissions: full papers (main track and organized sessions), posters and demos. For oral presentation, a full paper with the length of 6-8 pages should be submitted. For poster presentation, a poster paper with a limit of two pages should be submitted. For demonstration, an extended summary of the demo system should be submitted with a limit of two pages. All submissions will be reviewed by three distinguished researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers/posters/demos will appear in the conference proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services of IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL).

Submissions should be conducted with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair
at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2015. All submissions must be written in English in Conference Publishing Services (CPS)'s Standard template. Please refer to the conference website for more information.

* Important Dates

- Papers (Main Track and Organized Sessions):
Abstract submission: May 24th, 2015
Full Paper submission: May 31, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 17, 2015
Camera ready: August 7, 2015

- Posters:
Poster submission: May 31, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 17, 2015
Camera ready: August 7, 2015

- Demos:
Demo submission: May 31, 2015
Acceptance notification: July 17, 2015
Camera ready: August 7, 2015

* Organization

- General Co-Chairs
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

- Program Co-Chairs
Donghui Lin (Kyoto University, Japan)
Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)

- Program Committee
Jens Allwood (University of Göteborg, Sweden) Richard Beacham (King's College London, UK) Nadia Berthouze (University College London, UK) Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University - Boston, USA) Emmanuel G. Blanchard (IDÛ Interactive Inc. - Montréal, Canada) Jean-Pierre Briot (CNRS, Brazil) Philippe Codognet (CNRS & University of Tokyo, Japan) Nick Degens (Wageningen University, Netherlands) Shlomo Dubnov (University of California at San Diego, USA) Colette Faucher (Aix-Marseille University, France) Christiane D. Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Lynne Hall (University of Sunderland, UK) Rüdiger Heimgärtner (IUIC - Undorf, Germany) Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Netherlands) Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan) Gert Jan Hofstede (Wageningen University, Netherlands) Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia) Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Jean Ippolito (University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA) W. Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc. USA) Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University Hakodate, Japan) Rilla Khaled (University of Malta, Malta) Tomoko Koda (Osaka Institue of Technology, Japan) Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Lydia Lau (University of Leeds, UK) Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Japan) Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT, USA) Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University, Japan) Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan) Atsushi Nakazawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Shohei Nobuhara (Kyoto University, Japan) Hiroaki Ohshima (Kyoto University, Japan) Yoshihiro Okada (Ryukoku University, Japan) Mario Paolucci (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Jong-Il Park (Hanyang University, Korea) Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow, UK) Matthias Rehm (Aalborg University, Denmark) Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) Kasper Rodil (Aalborg University, Denmark) Tetsuo Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan) Suleman Shahid (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Vibeke Sorensen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Thammasat University, Thailand) Juan-Luis Suarez (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Alistair Swale (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Hiromi T. Tanaka (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Ruck Thawonmas (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Naomi Yamashita (NTT, Japan) Yutaka Yamauchi (Kyoto University, Japan) Keiji Yano (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Takashi Yoshino (Wakayama University, Japan)

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Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Program Co-Chairs,
Donghui Lin, Akira Maeda and Matthias Rauterberg

General Co-Chairs,
Kozaburo Hachimura, Toru Ishida and Naoko Tosa

Culture and Computing 2015
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